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Anticoagulants

Anticoagulants (anticoagulantia; Greek anti-– against; opposite property, action, situation + lat. coagulantis, coagulans – causing coagulation; synonym: anticoagulative means) – medicines which slow down blood coagulation process, for example, heparin.

 
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